Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Part 32: Further Questing, Blade Bonding, & Salvaging Before Mor Ardain
8Here's one more "gameplay" video before I finally push all the way forward with Chapter 4's plot.
Before I headed off to Mor Ardain, I wanted to salvage some more to try and increase Rex's Salvager Rank, as well as try my luck with bonding with more Rare Blades.
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Here are the four new Rare Blades that I got in this video:
Boreas is a Wind Bitball Blade. His a large round robotic Blade whose stomach might as well be a black hole. He can eat anything and everything you could feed to him. His "mouth" is actually where his stomach would be, and it's also where he keeps his Bitball. He's also one of the best Healers you will ever have.
Boreas was designed by someone codenamed I-IV (pronounced Ai-Four), who was a designer for the Aldnoah.Zero known for its impressive mecha designs.
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Agate is an Earth Battleaxe Blade. A lovely maiden of war with a spirit that's as unbreakable as the minerals she seeks in her geologist studies.
Agate was designed by Yusuke Kozaki, the character designer for Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates.
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Dahlia is an Ice Bitball Blade. In contrast to that, she's a darling of Southern Hospitality and Blade of love and attraction who charms people with her looks.
Dahlia was designed by Risa Ebata from Satelight Inc. Ebata also designed another Ice Blade, Ursula. The reason why she made Dahlia with the half-human, half-rabbit design that she has was because it was an effort to make her look more different from Ursula.
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Wulfric is an Earth Megalance Blade. One of the most fearsome-looking Blades of them all, with a bloodlust to crush any and all of his foes, it turns out that he may have a much softer side on the inside that he may be struggling to show for himself and for others around him.
Wulfric was designed by Ryosuke Aiba, a character designer for Final Fantasy XIV as well as a director of CyDesignation Co., Ltd.
Wulfric is spawned from the Beastly Core Crystal that you got from killing his Elder Arachno Driver in Uraya. He finally regenerated, so I bonded him to Rex.
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Here's some other details with this video.
At the point of this recording, this game was updated enough for me to find a Nopon named Brobro at Argentum sometime after progressing through a bit of Chapter 4, but not before leaving to Mor Ardian.
He'll give you an Aux Core called Massive Melee Mythra. Its name should give you a clue on which Blade to equip it to the most, but I can't even naturally utilize that Blade, yet. Also, I plan not to use it until much MUCH later in the game even after she becomes fully available to me.
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Specially-named Core Crystals that aren't labeled "Common", "Rare", or "Legendary" will always otherwise be one-of-a-kind cores that can only ever be found and used once. They are guaranteed to spawn one specific Rare Blade after one silhouette flash instead of three.
Besides Wulfric's Beastly Core Crystal and Roc's Core Crystal, I also picked up the Ebullient Core Crystal and Divine Core Crystal. These are DLC material, but I don't plan to awaken these Blades until I get new permanent party members.
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There is an empty warehouse that I can rent from Rentarenta (these Nopon sure love their punny names) for 100,000G... or 99,990G. I can't do either of those yet, but I will in due time.
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Mor Ardain is within reach, now!